NVIDIA Adds New GPU Drivers For Windows 7 Beta

If your Windows 7 Beta experience has been a bit rough so far due to
unfriendly graphics drivers from NVIDIA, the company is finally
stepping up with a solution. Today, NVIDIA has made available new
graphics drivers from its website that apply to GeForce GPUs involved
in Windows 7 Beta setups. This also marks the start of regular NVIDIA
driver updates for the forthcoming operating system from Microsoft.
Needless to say, NVIDIA is pretty excited that Win7 will be the first
Windows OS to fully integrate and take advantage of the GPU for both
graphics and parallel computing, as it's currently attempting to
convince the world that GPUs are really the CPUs of the future. Or
something to that effect, anyway.

Ujesh Desai, vice president of GeForce desktop business at NVIDIA, had
this to say about the releases: "Since its release last month, the
Windows 7 Beta has been eagerly
tested by hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GeForce owners, who are
excited about the many graphical improvements Microsoft has added into
the upcoming operating system." Dwight Diercks, vice president of
software engineering at NVIDIA, added the following: "Our customers are
demanding an experience that is faster and more
visual, and with the addition of many new GPU-accelerated features,
including DirectX Compute, we believe Windows 7 will be well positioned
to meet those needs."

GeForce version 181.71 graphics drivers, which were loaded up today for
download, support the new Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) v1.1 from
Microsoft. These drivers also offer increased performance and
reliability in both 2D and 3D applications, including the 3D Windows
Aero desktop. To download the new Windows 7 Beta drivers for NVIDIA
GPUs, just visit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_7.html